Improvement in handles for cross-cut saws



ineen site @sind ditta 'THOMAS s. nIssToN, or` PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeNon To HIMSELF AND HENRY DISSTON & SON, OF SAME PLAGE.

Leners Parent No. 110,751, daad January's, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANDLES FOR CROSS-CUT SAWS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and mal-sing part of the same.

I, THOMAS S. DIssrroN, of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a Handle and Attachment for Gross-Gut Saws of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object of thc Invention.

My invention' consists of a handle forv cross-cut saws, provided with appliances, too fully described hereafter to need preliminary explanation, the object of my invention being the ready and secure attachment of the handle to the blade, and its ready detachment therefrom, and the easy adjustment of the handle to different positions iu respect to the blade.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a cross-cut saw with my improved handle 5. l

Figure 2, a transverse section on the line l 2, I'ig. 1, looking in the-direction of the arrow;

Figure 3,a sectional plan on the line 3 4, iig. l; and

Figure 4, a side view, showing the handle adjusted to a dierentposition on the blade.

General Description.

A represents a portion of a cross-cut saw-blade, and B one of the handles, which is made of wood, as

usual.

. This handle is embraced near its lower end by the hoops o a at one `endof' the plate D, the opposite end of which is forked or slotted, for receiving the sawblade, the end of the latter itting in a groove in'a bar, E, through which the said plate D passes freely. Against this bar E bear the points of two thumbscrews, l1 b', arranged one above and one below the plate D, and passing .through the-handle B, into which may be let met-alnuts, In 1n, adapted to the screws.

rlhe slotted end of the plate 'D has -a number of holes, (four in the present instance,) through any one of which and through a hole inthe blade is passed a saw and secured to the back of the saine, as shown in ig. 4, a position desirable-when the saw has to be used for cutting down trees.

Gla-tm.. The4 plate aD, adapted to the handle and to the sawblade, substantially as described, in combination with the set-screws b b and grooved bar E.

In 'testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS S. DISSTON.

Witnesses:

A. H. SIIOEAIAKER, ARTHUR Hoonn.

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